Our New Buildings: Hits and Misses; A survey of the construction that has given New York a new face shows too few departures from the characterless and the imitative. Our New Buildings

By ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE ();

April 29, 1962,

, Section The New York Times Magazine, Page 213, Column , words

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NEW YORK will be a great town, as the taxi drivers say, if they ever finish building it. The trans formation of a half-dozen avenues in the years since World War II, the switch from a cityscape of stone and brick to one of metal and glass, the construction of several impressive architectural landmarks give only a hint of what is yet to come--a building boom greater than any we have ever experienced.

April 29, 1962

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